CAN the billions who live outside North Korea and Cuba be wrong?

This is activist Michael Moore's sweeping claim and it is a proposition he fails to prove in 'Capitalism: A Love Story', probably his weakest movie to date. His previous films had targets that were more well defined, like 'Bowling For Capitol Hill'.

In his latest film, Moore has decided to be the working-class hero taking on the entire capitalist system. His catalyst is the September 2008 financial meltdown and the resulting taxpayer bailout of Wall Street.

He says at one point: 'Capitalism is evil. And you can't regulate evil.'

This movie sees him, as usual, blurring the lines between investigative journalism, opinion and theatre. For example, his attempt to take back taxpayer money from the big banks is performance art. Fun to watch, but it adds nothing.

He constantly weakens his own arguments. There is inadvertent comedy when he mocks the Republican Party's use of Joe The Plumber figure to say that it is in touch with the common man, while failing to see that his own rumpled, baseball cap and plaid-shirted self is Joe The Film-maker.

Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times' LIFE!.